Georg Scheffer
Tanner
Baptized: ?
Married: November 29, 1619 Marburg
Died: After 1668
Father: Thiel Scheffer
Mother: Magdelena
Wife: Elisabeth Kornmest b.c.1590
Children
Georg Scheffer b. 1629
Notes:
-A Tanner by trade. A Lutheran.
-Recorded as a citizen in Marburg Dec 23, 1619
-In 1620 requested a loan of 100 Reichsthalers from the church, and
put the house of his mother up as security against that loan.
-In 1631 he was sued by the Shoemaker's guild for selling his leather
abroad.
-In 1643, he has 475 Reichthalers in Capital assets
-In 1664, he pays 200 Reichthalers to the heirs of Johannes Boß
to pay for hospice care.
-He served as Vice Mayor in 1650,1654,58,62,65,68.
-He is recorded as being a godfather at least four times.
Sources:
-Marburger Sippenbuch, by Kurt Stahr.